Abolish Mail plugin in favor of calling AOSKit::retrieveHeadersForDSID directly

[biemster]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Not really a problem, but I found an easier way of retrieving anisette data that does not require installing a Mail plugin.

Describe the solution you'd like AOSKit has a function retrieveHeadersForDSID that can readily retrieve the required anisette data, without needing the entitlements of the Mail program. This is not my work, I just stumbled upon this git repo: https://github.com/vtky/AppleIDAuth (all credits go to @vtky), tested it on Catalina and it works fine with my script: https://github.com/biemster/FindMy

Describe alternatives you've considered Just do nothing, the Mail plugin works fine too. This would only remove an extra step in setting up the whole thing.

Additional context According to Victor who did all the hard work here, the function retrieveOTPHeadersForDSID requires a single parameter. Providing "-2" as parameter retrieves the same anisette data as the Mail plugin in my tests. The original repo linked above provides a lot of additional info and a compiling XCode project with which I did my tests, and is definitely worth a read (not very long).

[biemster]

This is actually doable in a couple lines of python too, as a proof of concept:

#!/usr/bin/python

import objc; from Foundation import NSBundle, NSClassFromString

AOSKitBundle = NSBundle.bundleWithPath_('/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/AOSKit.framework')
objc.loadBundleFunctions(AOSKitBundle, globals(), [("retrieveOTPHeadersForDSID", '')])
util = NSClassFromString('AOSUtilities')

print(util.retrieveOTPHeadersForDSID_("-2"))

[vvzvlad]

I think this is a very important improvement that will avoid a lot of problems with the introduction of the plugin in Mail.

[p1337]

Is anyone researching at this topic ? Are there some people that want make this possible , even maybe a raspi running a script wringing to a DB ?

[biemster]

There is not much more to research here, you'd still need macOS. Maybe you meant to comment on issue #63 ? There are still people trying out stuff (including me) but there is not much progress atm as far as i can see..

[blackknife56]

It would be great if we could use a dockerized minimal (e.g. no graphics, just the bare minimum to run the OHserver) version of osx (https://github.com/sickcodes/Docker-OSX) and then run a openhaystack server on it. With this setup it may be possible to use even a raspi or a generic linux server.

[biemster]

I agree, I'm looking into modifying the Catalina recovery BaseSystem.dmg, and running that with https://github.com/foxlet/macOS-Simple-KVM. I'm using a full Catalina with sickcodes/Docker-OSX now, but that clocks in at 30 Gigabytes or so. The BaseSystem I should be able to keep below 1G, and maybe even way below that. Raspi will be difficult though (and for sure not Catalina), since that is ARM.

[vekexasia]

@blackknife56 not a MAC expert here but how would you enter apple id credentials without graphical interface?

[Chacha1305Poly20]

@blackknife56 not a MAC expert here but how would you enter apple id credentials without graphical interface?

Seems there has been a long time. There is a project collect the account and password via command-line, so I believe this is possible. https://github.com/icloud-photos-downloader/icloud_photos_downloader

[biemster]

Also there is pypush now: https://github.com/beeper/pypush